Wow..how the hell did I miss this when Googling? I've made some progress here, but I've reached a stumbling block and I really don't know where to go from here.
I've downloaded the biosdisk app and the I1000A08.EXE file (which is allegedly my 1000 A08 BIOS update) from Dell support. I used the biosdisk mkimage -i /home/jon /home/jon/biosdisk-0.65/I1000A08.EXE command to make the image which resulted in a dosdisk.img file being created in my home directory. There is a biosdisk install command but it doesn't work on Debian systems so I can't use it on my Kanotix. So I manually copied the memdisk and dosdisk.img file to my /boot directory. I then modified my /boot/grub/menu.lst file and added: title BIOS Flash A08 kernel /boot/memdisk initrd /boot/dosdisk.img lines to it. When I reboot and select this item from teh Grub menu, the system does one of two things. It either boots into a plan jane FreeDOS prompt and does nothing further, or it hangs while displaying 'InitDisk' I can only assume that there's something wrong with the dosdisk.img file, but I really have no idea how to troubleshoot that. Can someone point out to me where I'm going wrong? Thanks! Jon On September 4, 2005 04:34 pm, Jesse Kline wrote: > Domain match. > Remove domain from Allow list --> > > https://www.vqme.com/pk/eh?op=remove_domain&Domain=clug.ca&VU=HqIXF6rk+PpDI >0Rq/fWFgg Block domain --> > > https://www.vqme.com/pk/eh?op=block_domain&Domain=clug.ca&VU=HqIXF6rk+PpDI0 >Rq/fWFgg > > http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#biosdisk > > Jesse > > On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 14:29 -0400, Jon wrote: > > OK, so now that my touchpad kinda works, I've noticed during my screwing > > around that my Dell BIOS is A03 and the most current version for my > > Inspiron 1000 is A08. > > > > Unfortunately, the only file I can find to update the BIOS on the Dell > > site is designed to run right off the Windows desktop. I've tried Wine > > and Win4Lin, but neither will allow the application to run (not > > surprised). > > > > Has anyone successfully updated a Dell BIOS on a straight GNU/Linux > > machine before? I can boot from a USB stick and have tried running the > > application as a DOS executable, but no go. It wants Windows. > > > > Any ideas..? > > > > Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
